David Fenimore

FenimoreDavid Fenimore is a lecturer in the English department.  In addition to Core Humanities, he teaches introductory courses in language, literature, writing, and storytelling.  As a traveling Chautauquan, he has developed scholarly portrayals of western writer Zane Grey, editor Horace Greeley, and California pioneers Lewis Keseberg and Captain John Sutter.  He earned his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he has taught since 1989.  Publications include Bicycling Across America (1989) and A Bad Boy Grown Up (1995).  His lecture, "Religious Reformation, Intellectual Revolution," was broadcast in the KNPB series, The Western Traditions Lectures.  During 2001-2003, David Fenimore was the University Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, delivering public lectures on protest songs and on Michael Frayn's Copenhagen, among others.

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